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THE

Songkong

SERIES.

Government

GAZETTE.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 21ST JULY, 1855.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

VOL. I. No. 3.

The Contract for publishing this Gazette, entered into on the 24th September, 1853, was terminated on the 30th ultimo; and notice is hereby

at a NEW SERIES of this Gazette will be published bercafter, to commence from the 7th instant, under a New Contract, and that

"THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,"

before, be the only Official Organ for Proclamations, NotifICATIONS, and PUBLIC PAPERS, of this Government.

By Order,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

e following Return of Notes in Circulation and Specie in Reserve at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corpora- Hongkong, is published for general information.

By Order,

lonial Secretary's Office, Victoria, Hongkong, 16th July, 1855.

W. T. MERCER, Colonial Secretary.

of the Average amount of Notes in Circulation at the Bank of the Oriental Bank Corporation in Hongkong for the Month ending

31st May, 1855, rendered in accordance with the Terms of Her Majesty's Royal Charter of Incorporation.

NOTES ISSUED.............

....$116,443.

Exclusive of the Notes of the Oriental Bank still outstanding.

ntal Bank Corporation, Hongkong, 1st June, 1855.

(Signed,)

SAM: GRAY,

Manager.

be Books and Treasure of the above Corporation were this day inspected by me, and the Amount exhibited accorded with the

the Charter.

ze the 15th, 1855.

R. RIENAECKER.

Colonial Treasurer.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

Diplomatic Department.

Excellency Her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of Trade, &c., &c., is hereby to notify, that the Returns of the BRITISH TRADE at the PORT OF CANTON for the Year ending ecember, 1854, published in the Hongkong Government Gazelle of 5th May last, having been found to be stare cancelled, and the following amended Returns are published in their stead for general information.

storia, Hongkong, 2d July, 1855.

By Order,

W. WOODGATE.

A RETURN of the Number and Tonnage of MERCHANT VESSELS which Arrived at, and Departed from, the PORT OF CANTON,

during the Year ending 31st December, 1854, distinguishing the Countries to which they belong,

ARRIVED.

UNDER WHAT COLOURS.

DEPARTED.

No. OF SHIPS.

TONNAGE.

UNDER WHAT COLOURS.

137

68,795 British,

65

45,690

American,

5

1,934 Bremen,

3

1,483 Chilian,

4

1,753 Chinese,

11

2,589 Danish,

...

23

10,427

Dutch,

3

866

15

3,274

2

328

672

1

144

French,

Hamburgh, Mexican,

New Grenada, Oldenberg,

18

6,268

Peruvian,

6

1,925

Portuguese,

1

650

Prussian,

21

1,6,344

Siamese,

1,015 Spanish,

320 154,157

Swedish,...

:

::

NO. OF SHIPS. TONNAGY.

136

69,050

60

43,137

5

1,934

3

1,483

1,753

11

2,661

23

10,687

2

526

15

3,396

2

328

1

672

144:

11

3,588

1,677

650

1,000

21

6,120

4

1,015

306

149,711